Yesterday, two of the top teams in the league upgraded their receiving corps, with the 49ers and Seahawks trading for Anquan Boldin and Percy Harvin, respectively. And today, the Denver Broncos bolster their elite passing attack with the addition of Wes Welker.
How’s your squad look after day 2 of free agency?
I’m puzzled by the Welker deal vs the one the Pats just gave Amendola. 5 years/31 million with 10 guaranteed sounds better than what Welker got from the Broncos, so why didn’t they resign him first?
Perhaps there’s something we’re missing.
I can’t figure out how that trade happened. For a sixth round pick?
Did somebody rehire Eddie DeBartolo when I wasn’t looking?
Papa Harbaugh told John he needed to share.
Super space totes awesome with cherries on top.
Also, I’m pretty happy with Martellus Bennett as a TE option for Cutler. Though I still don’t understand why they got rid of Greg Olsen.
So far, all we’ve done is release guys. No one’s been signed yet.
We need a durable running back with some urgency, and we need a durable center.
I’m gonna miss Charles Woodson. I’m gonna miss him more if he goes to San Francisco and the Packers might wind up playing against him. Good luck, he’s proven he’s worth a lucrative contract, but it’s a hit to the roster and that ain’t no joke.
My squad has been relatively quiet, despite having $44M to spend. They’ve signed a few role guys, some of which could be theoretically good in both the offensive and defensive systems we want to run, but time will tell.
But the NFC West just got scary good… after already being pretty damn scary good.
What’s crazy about that last sentence is that the NFC West is just a couple of years removed from having a 7-9 team win the division.
My team released its mediocre but at least minimally competent quarterback in order to save a whopping $500,000 under the salary cap, made virtually no attempt to resign its best lineman, made virtually no attempt to resign its best reserve lineman, released all but two of its top WRs, its starting Strong Safety (who was admittedly declining but doesn’t have a good replacement on the roster), and its only every-down linebacker.
Somehow my team thought it would be able to upgrade its WRs (which it desperately needs to do) without any quarterbacks on the roster other than Tarvaris Jackson (who wasn’t even active for any games last year), and no top-tier QB prospects in the draft.
The lesson, as always: Lake Erie is God’s urinal.
Steelers lost a ton of players — most of whom seem either aging or to have been underperforming (but that’s hard to measure on a not winning team, ain’t it?)
Dude, I am so looking forward to our pending sport-viewing experiment.
The OP may as well have been in Farsi for all I understood it.
Anquan Boldin… Michelle Kwan… It makes sense!
As a Seahawks fan, I just feel confused. Where is the comforting despair and resignation the off season is supposed to engender? Where is the bleak but familiar feeling of hopelessness? Where is the foreknowledge that all it just doesn’t matter that I can wrap around me like a warm blanket?
This off season is terrifying.
You need to switch allegiances. Mark T. can hook you up.
Indeed. It’s simple really. Lake Erie is God’s urinal; the Pacific Northwest, with its rain and environmentalism, is God’s shower.
One day, God’s lazy and disgusting nephew dropped God’s toy bulldozer, Marshawn Lynch, into Lake Erie, and instead of cleaning Marshawn Lynch up, tried to hide him in the stash of old mildewy bath toys next to the urinal (Buffalo). God forgot about his Marshawn Lynch toy until he heard Marshawn Lynch angrily running other toys over in Buffalo: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3463965
God tried to fix Marshawn Lynch up but couldn’t get rid of the stench of Lake Erie, so he made Marshawn Lynch’s new permanent home the shower that is the Pacific Northwest.
Then a year or two later, that same nephew brought God’s even shinier and more awesome toy car (Russell Wilson) to Lake Erie to see if it would float. Thankfully God stopped the nephew in the nick of time, but the call was too close, and God decided that Russell Wilson, too, needed to head off to the shower.
The Broncos spent a substantial amount of money this week. While I’m not sure how much better it made them, after the last two years I’m not about to second-guess the brain trust of Elway/Fox/Del Rio/Manning. Prediction: somewhere, somehow, they’re going to get a running back reminiscent of Terrell Davis and Manning/X repeat the Elway/Davis two Super Bowl wins in a row.
They just signed DRC, as I understand it. If for no other reason than his height and length, he likely doesn’t let Baltimore back in that game.